Thanks to all, summing up all answers from the groups where this little poll was posted, the results so far are: book I: C minor - 5 votes C# minor - 3 Db...
After some deliberation I decided to sell off my extra copies of rare Richter CDs. In the past I've always preferred to hold onto such things for possible...
anyone seen this one yet ? Gilels Edition Cat.No.: 92615 EAN Code: 5028421926155 Format: 10 CD Label: Brilliant Classics Composer: Various Title: Gilels,...
... transcription of a ... Grove is ... which I ... plays or ... Liszt revised the transcription (S406/2) and gave it the german title "Tscherkessenmarsch"....
... As far as I know Glinka used folk Adygian (Circassian) tune for the march, just as some other pieces of Circassian melos were used in the opera “Ruslan...
Dear Ates, In the film "Kompozitor Glinka"( MOSFilm 1952), what I've repeatedly seen lately, the march played by SR/F.Liszt is marked as Thchernomor's (the...
hello To my opinion the Leipzig recording of the 3 op104,op 110,op111 and the Brahms as extras ,has to be heard as a whole and not separately. Such live...
Hello everyone this is my first entry in the group. I remember many years ago (1970) my harmony teacher brought an lp with Richter playing the Debussy's first...
Hello I just purchased the Bach preludes and fugues from 1973 recital in Insbruck live. Completely amazing. Nothing to compare with the know studio recording. ...
Dear Paul I fully agree with you on Chopin Tristesse etude.As soon as I heard it I began crying and never again I listened to it with another pianist. The same...
I recently purchased the same CD. it has the best performance of the Prelude and Fugue #5. When I was studying with Sasha Gorodninski in the late seventies he...
... Can I ask for clarification. Notis above wrote about purchasing the WTC set from Innsbruck (a) I did not know that the Innsbruck recording this was...
this work is included in the poll about which piano works did maestro Richter play better than anyone else. I have 3 recordings by S.R: Prague, Philips and...
I first heard the studio Well Tempered Clavier a few years ago. It was amazing. I heard about the Innsbruck WTC, from some of your Richter List e-mails. I had...
Sorry to be so late answering: My favorite -- tough call -- is Prelude/Fugue # 15 in G, BWV 860 Albert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Yes, the Innsbruck is just an amazing and tantalizing set... I have, naturally, not got originals... But there is also the Revelation Book I from Moscow which...
Is that the release on "Chant du Monde?" ... From: notis <superbemaison@...> Sent: Oct 5, 2005 3:33 PM To: sviatoslavrichter@yahoogroups.com Subject: [...
The copy of the Innsbruck rendition is available on the chinese set POLO CL4B-86080-2 frequently available on ebay. Best Romeo Giorgio ... Da: John Graney ...
Were you talking about Gould or Gulda ? Your note uses both names. You know, there is a Friedrich Gulda WTC from 1972, reissued by Philips in 1995. Don't...
I was referring to BOTH: Friederick GULDA and Glenn GOULD.... I think Gulda was somewhat crazy or better said, bizarre... because he went into jazz... I...
Dear group, Does anybody know, when and where the Beethoven/Diabelli Variations released on "Moscow studio archives" in February 2004 were recorded. Thanks for...
In my humble opinion, notwithstanding the "Sviatoslav Richter - 1988"
writing on the back cover, it is the "usual" live rendition from 17/6/86 -
Amsterdam that...
I had no idea there was a Marcelle Meyer back then.... Nor an Alexander Borowsky, both of whom had recorded them well before GOULD..... Let me risk adding...